If you're already subscribed, thank you! If not, you totally should subscribe; these old episodes are just as good on re-listen and the commentary can be funny and/or engaging and/or thought provoking.

How should we give feedback?See the poll above. Currently, we thought people would just post replies to the updated episode / Drabbleclassics thread. Each story usually has good comments from its original run and threads for stories that are now Drabbleclassics are updated and marked with a blue ribbon .

But this doesn't seem to attract much participation (maybe not many have subscribed?) and recent misplaced posts suggest this might not be the most intuitive way -- hence the poll.

Notes:

Option 1 is the current approach. May not be working well.

Options 2 and 3 are more work for your beleaguered moderator(s).

Option 3 might be considered more clutter to the front page, but may be the most intuitive and keeps story discussion in the Story Discussion area.

What I meant was renaming the Story Discussion forum itself, so it was 'Story Discussion (Drabblecast & Classics)' or something like that, but I suppose character limits would come into play there too.

I hadn't considered renaming the threads themselves, because that really would get confusing. Once people are in the right forum, it seems reasonable to me that they would see the index posts at the top of the page and use them if they couldn't see the episode they wanted straight off.

The titles also needed to be renamed for good "information scent" and context.

Renamed them like:"Classics n (EP nnn) - Story Title"

This makes it much clearer what's going one with the Classics episodes, especially the 3 latest/sticky episodes up top. It busts sorting by subject, but: (a) That was already busted for classics, (b) no one seems to use it, (c) it's handled better by the index post.

Algernon Sydney is Dead wrote:Renaming the forum is a good idea. Done.

The titles also needed to be renamed for good "information scent" and context.

Renamed them like:"Classics n (EP nnn) - Story Title"

This makes it much clearer what's going one with the Classics episodes, especially the 3 latest/sticky episodes up top. It busts sorting by subject, but: (a) That was already busted for classics, (b) no one seems to use it, (c) it's handled better by the index post.

Coming from a software dev background, I always appreciate the thought that goes into a clear naming scheme.

For sorting purposes, how about adding some leading zeros to the episode numbers?